And So It Begins
Posted: May 8th, 2014 | Author: Tommy Lawlor | Filed under: Philadelphia Eagles | 252 Comments »Draft time is here. The Eagles won’t pick for a couple of hours, but this should be a lot of fun. There are some really interesting players and trying to figure out where they will go is perplexing, to put it mildly.
I posted a mock draft at ScoutsNotebook.
No great rumors for the Eagles, but they are staying active.
Eagles been very active RT @GeoffMosherCSN: Howie Roseman said to CSN's Derrick Gunn he's made calls, teams seem willing to move around.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 8, 2014
As for pick 22…I still want Anthony Barr more than anyone. If he’s gone, WR Marqise Lee is my guy.
Let’s get this party started.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
sorry, just getting ready for our first pick
Hope you like Cody Latimer because that’s gonna be the pick!
Anybody got some draft punk I can listen to during this show?
jesus christ i forgot how much i hate chris berman’s voice
NFL network is where it’s at. Mayock is the best in the biz imo.
good call, thx
PE.com imo
nfl.com is streaming live
Hah, as the fans boo the commish: “Thank you, thank you NFL fans…”
I feel like his paint on hair has some sort of bounce-back force field that keeps him from hearing/seeing reality.
he goes to the same barber as david stern
My mom?
I think he just doesn’t care, he’s already banking his 30 million or whatever.
Analysts say Dix would provide extra length in the ‘back end’. I say, OUCH! and No thanks!
hey now!
Jeff Fisher quote… “Yeah, get out.” love it. HA!
That’s great.
Why is he there anyhow.
They had a reporter in his war room. Made for some good live TV.
lol EMB’s down already.
I’d forgotten about those days.
Stream is still up.
Can the Texans trade down?
If not, it’s Bortles or Mack
Seriously, give me Beckham or Fuller and I’m good. I’d trade up to 10 to 15 for Barr. And I’d trade up a few spots for Beckham.
Im with you
texans not clowning around…sorry
Ha, yeah I guess they couldn’t trade out… I really thought they’d want to get a QB to anchor the franchise.
im just glad he went to an afc team, ive had this irrational fear that the giants would somehow pick him up
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Sorry, also practicing for the Eagles pick.
it’s important to stretch those vocal chords
So its gonna happen, Clowney and Watt on the same defensive line. The Luck household just sent a carrier pigeon to the Colts recommending selecting a player who can play on the offensive line.
They’re gonna have to upgrade from Trash Can to Dumpster.
To bad they haven’t got a first round pick, or we could have traded Trash Can to them. Maybe they should call the Chargers and ask about King Dunlap.
Seriously, how pissed do you think Luck is right now that they don’t have a 1st round pick?
Hahaha, Its not just that they don’t have a first round pick, its that the reason they don’t have a first round pick is Trent Richardson, a mediocre at best player on the position where players die the quickest and teams constantly find gems later.
I would be absolutely pissed, but then I would look at my defense and demand a trade. Luck is a better man than me, except for his stupid beard.
I did not realize dumpster declared early and is in the draft. Good to hear. He will waste the competition.
Anyone else feel like the broken down weeping draftee after they’re picked is starting to get a little cliche?
not really, this is this kid’s life dream that finally happened, he made it to the nfl, how improbable is that for anybody. id be emotional
Agreed, especially early on. My personal favorite is later on the dude that got humbled and went later than he wanted and is pissed.
for sure
He just won the lottery, it’s a big moment.
I feel like I have to continually remind myself that they are just kids. My 21 year old self probably would react mostly the same way. Now at 40… kick me in the nuts or tell me I won a million dollars… ehhh, whatever just give me a beer.
I’d break down and cry if i was about to make $4mm a year.
coming from where a lot of these kids came from? Yeah the recognition, the money, after such a long road. Def not unreasonable.
Gonna trade the pick to Miami for Dion Jordan and they are going to take a receiver.
god it feels good to see that “2.st louis (from washington)” flash up on the screen on a regular basis
I still love that the Rams have done shit with those extra picks.
Texans fans boo game is not as good as Eagles fans
its all in the diaphragm
This is beautiful, the pick the Redskins should have up right now… Love it.
At least the redskins consistently give us entertainment
Reminder gentlemen: This would be the Redskins pick if their front office was competent. Thank you Snyder.
They wouldnt have RG3 and had no QB if they didnt do it
Cousins + all those picks….I think I’d take that. Hindsight though. Of course, RGIII may still turn out to be a generational type player, not yet though.
Cousins is garbage tho.
If Tommy’s mock draft comes to fruition I might puke.
Just got home from work. Came here first. Any new exciting rumors out there?
Indianoplis Colts now in negotiations to trade for trash can. I think we can get a 4th for him.
If its the same trash can that McDougal used to beat semi-regularly, the best we’re getting is a sixth.
Put on the film of trash can vs King Dunlap in practice, that’ll bring his price up.
WHO IS “TRASH CAN”?
We are trading everyone for everything
Nothing new, only thing we know is that Howie is using up some serious long distance minutes.
I’m a little disappointed it was a predictable 1st and 2nd picks. Part of me really wanted it to be like Blake Bortles and Khalil Mack 1-2. Would throw things into chaos rather nicely.
Bortlezzzz. That’s our week 1 opposing QB.
Love the pick. Pushed a positional player closer to the Eagles.
Hadn’t thought of that, sweet.
also pushed a pbr closer to tommy
Soooo, you love that another team made a bad pick? Oh my T-Law, you might just be the most evil man in the universe.
Oh wait, thats La Canfora. Why is it that everyone else can agree on NOT tweeting the pick but him? Pathetic! And McLane done goofed by RT/answering him. #NoLaCanforaInMyTimeline…EVER!
Now if only the Browns take Manziel at 9…
bortles, the new brunell?
Good. Run on QBs, please.
Browns are up: Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny?
Mack!
O snap, Buffalo making moves.
Bills getting Mack BOOOOOOOOO
I think Evans
Huge reach for Evans. Maybe Watkins
Bills traded up
TRADE TRADE TRADE, i think a trades happening…
Cleveland Browns are going to be *VERY* good in two years. Lombardi left them in a perfect situation. Assets on assets on assets. Just need a QB.
Wow, Buffalo gave up next years 1st and this years 4th to move up.
Next years 4th
Wow..Cleveland robbing teams.
holy hell, I’d say
Way to go Mr. Banner!! Oh, wait…
Wow, Buffalo is dumb!
wow cleveland ran away with that trade!
Goddamn it, Cleveland. Two #1s next year too. Man. They’re going to be soooooo good in 2015.
gordon+watkins=explosive
jk
Can they pass the ball to themselves?
screen game like woah
Dammit, which is the lateral button again?
HA
except Watkins is playing for the Bills
Gordon will be playing for us in a few years..I wish
Cleveland can take Evans at 9.
How far does Mack have to fall before we trade the farm for him?
7.
Good question
IMO, until we don’t have to give up a significant pick(1st and 2nd round) in next years draft.
Going to have to wait a while then.
Didn’t matter anyway. My reasoning is actually pretty simple: never trade future firsts, its just bound to come back and bite you in the ass.
I guess we aren’t getting watkins
Wow. 1st and 4th next year plus the swapping of 1sts this year. You have to wonder if that is indications of team’s unwillingness to give up picks in this year’s draft.
Hmm, I wonder who Oakland takes. Manziel here?
Who’s the fastest player in the draft…. oh wait.
NFLN says Mack or Evans
There it is.
mack attack off the board
There goes mack
and get this pick made by al davis’ corpse. mack can play WR better than heyward bey ever could
Why is it the highlight tape of Mack mostly include him abusing a bad RT? but no tape of his Baylor game is ever shown.
Cause it was THEEE OHIO STATE.
boy the matthews family has one hell of a gene pool
So many players in the NFL, and the Eagles got the worst one.
oh shit i forgot about casey
Can we trade Casey and a 4th for Jake?
I’d even throw in Jake Knotts.
Bucs are taking a CB or Evans
Mike Evans to the Bucs
please do not post pics before they are on TV
Yes, thank you.
Was it a spoiler or a prediction?
Sounded like a spoiler.
That would be unwelcome then, agreed.
Reminds me of being on a GoT message board, ER MER GERD SPOILERS, YOU RUINED IT!
There is a difference, GOT isnt live.
Where are you getting your info? Someone on twitter?
im personally getting all my information from mel kiper’s hairline
ahh, that’s not substantial – it’s all fluff.
but it did well on the wonderlic
Wonderlic? Is that some kind of hair gel?
hemorrhoid cream i think
So what happened with Teddy Bridgewater? Wasn’t he considered a top pick at one point?
manziel was considered a top pick at one point
haha you mean this morning?
Yeah, but Manziel had character issues. Just curious if there was something on Bridgewater I missed…
oh, i have no idea. it’s really crazy how all this information and misinformation is flying around everywhere.
He blew his Pro day performance. Usually uses a glove but took it off. Threw terrible as a result.
This time last year people were saying there would be soooo many franchise QB’s this year…..yeah
According to people connected, Teddy was more media than NFL teams, Teddy fell on media boards when NFL teams began leaking info
I’m glad that Evans is gone. Huge bust potential that I didn’t want this team to take.
C’mon Cleveland you need Derek Carr. Get him off the board!!
Teddy or Manziel to Cleveland?
Rumor is they prefer Carr
Smokescreens
Huge smokescreens
They’ve shown interest in Teddy.
Why would you move up one spot? If the team trades you the pick, they didn’t want your guy.
Was wondering the same thing myself.
to keep someone else from moving up
That makes sense.
But if all you’re offering is a 5th, if someone really wanted that pick you’d have to imagine they’d be offering more than a 5th…
Funny is the Browns did the same with the exact same team in 2012.
Sooooo, Justin Gilbert for the Colts 2015 1st round selection?
Well Tommy, you can thank that last cup of pudding for that draft pick.
Ewww
Why would they think someone else would take Gilbert at 8?
because Gilbert has the size you want in a CB, just like Bortles look like a QB
But they couldn’t just get him at 9?
As said, this is the same team (despite new GM) who traded one spot up with the Vikings to take TRich, when everybody knew the Vikings wouldnt draft him
Superstition, it worked so well for them last time, they did it again? lol… I’m still scratching my head. Good sales job by the Vikes in my opinion.
Maybe all of those mock drafts that had Gilbert to the Lions scared them to death.
IMO, that was a reach. Seems like all of these teams are banking on their potential.
They’re still drunk from the Buffalo trade.
gilbert+haden=lockdown potential
Do not tell Walter Thurmond
is the NFL.com stream different from NFL network?
It was the A group for a while, now im stuck with Matt Millen… Back to ESPN… UGH.
I don’t think so, I’m on NFL.com and it says NFL Network in the corner.
The website feed is from a studio somewhere with occasional cut-ins. The NFLN feed is live from RCMH.
UGH.
I think this is where we lose Barr.
Good call
good call
i think ike reese just got away with a block in the back on that westbrook miracle meadowland return
fuck
BOOOOOOOOOOOO?
kind of, with all the barr talk i was getting kind of pumped up for that possibility, ike reese seems to agree
Barr is gone — whole world is shocked.
So much for all those mocks having Barr drop.
CRAP!
WR seems more imminent for us in the first now.
Sigh.
The Minnesota Vikings. Fucking over the Eagles since that damn tuesday night game.
At least it wasn’t the Cowboys…
Doesnt the fact that we need a WR and might be selecting one with the first round pick basically mean we traded a first round pick to cut Desean?
We does not need one.
Hell I wanted I wanted to draft a WR before we cut him
Lewan to the Lions?
you’re leright
Nope far from it lol
whoops, sounded similar, kind of
Good pick IMO
Dagnabbit. I was hoping he would drop far enough for us to get.
And the Lion says… “meh, I don’t like wasting time playing defense anyway.”
That Suh guy deserves to be worn out.
Pfff Who needs it.
That’s why they made rounds five through seven, right?
With their history that’s almost rounds four through six! That’s value.
They had first round picks on the DL
Weak secondary.
Goodell needed to lower that mic a bit.
*entire podium lowered, or get the man a box to stand on for cryin out loud.
This just in… Gruden: “Ebron isn’t a tight end.”
Megatron, Ebron,Fauria…skyscrapers in the endzone oh boy.
now they only need a healthy matt stafford to throw that ball up
Maybe in 2017 when they figure out they need OL.
and a secondary, and a new city
Pretty much the only thing left to do if you’retrying to defend that….poor Matt
Although — no sad faces — could manziel drop to cowboys? can we ruin that franchise?
Book it.
that’d be glorious
Please do. Romo part 2.
I know we love to make fun of Romo, but he is not the problem imo so you better hope he isnt that
He is the problem when it comes down to the end.
its just conformation bias. Romo isnt throwing more ints late in a game than any other QB, we just remember Romo’s
That’s true but he’s a certified choker. A lot of teams would rather have a win over a good looking stat line.
“certified choker. ”
Based on what? perception? Is Peyton Manning a choker as well (he has a sub 500 play off record)?
based on all of his timely chokes…ala the last three final game losses,mainly attributed to his choking
Would love that.
Mosley starting to drop…
Best fit for the Titans together with Lewan
Does Gilbert going so high push Fuller up higher?
might mean a run on CBs begin before we are in range for one
Odds on Giants taking a QB in round 1?
Slim to none
They got Russ Lande’s no. 1 overall prospect from last year
Derek Carr.
69%
Why exactly is there so much focus and talk about Manziel?
He’s this year’s “omg he keeps falling” story
The Heisman treatment.
There WILL be a QB at 22
nervous time, giants on the clock
And the pick is… Tom Savage.
lewan looks like jon runyan jr
Not a bad line coming together in Tennessee
Lewan to Tenn. guess they are going to protect Locker instead of replacing him.
man if they can keep locker healthy, and thats a big if, i really like him as a qb
Agree, Locker is a good QB, just brittle as glass
They could get a QB later if they wanted.
OK, odds now Manziel to Dallas are improving. Heeheehee lol
From your keyboard to God’s laptop – make it be so!
wrs dropping…
There were only 2 WRs in the top 15 IMO.
Who? This still seems a little early for ODB.
Mosley to the Giants? Ughh no please. Dennard/C-D too.
Just started a new thread.
http://igglesblitz.com/2014/05/halfway-there/
Awww, that’s how it is in the biz, in your prime, being productive, and the owner goes and drafts a new post.
Donald here?